Australia's coastal marine ecosystems have a deep cultural significance to Indigenous
Australians, include multiple World Heritage sites, and support the nation's rapidly growing …

Mass coral bleaching is one of the clearest threats of climate change to the persistence of
marine biodiversity. Despite the negative impacts of bleaching on coral health and survival …

Coral growth depends on the partnership between the animal hosts and their intracellular,
photosynthetic dinoflagellate symbionts. In this study, we used the sea anemone Aiptasia, a …

The partnership between corals and their intracellular algal symbionts has long been a
textbook example of a mutually beneficial association. Here I argue that this view has been …

Cnidarians have become valuable models for understanding many aspects of
developmental biology including the evolution of body plan diversity, novel cell type …

Initially discovered over 35 years ago in the bacterium Escherichia coli as a defense system
against invasion of viral (or other exogenous) DNA into the genome, CRISPR/Cas has …

Corals residing in habitats that experience high‐frequency seawater pCO2 variability may
possess an enhanced capacity to cope with ocean acidification, yet we lack a clear …

Scleractinian corals, also known as stony corals, are marine invertebrates with a continuous
exoskeleton made of aragonite, a form of calcium carbonate that provides support and …